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V. The Specific Form: its Acquisition, its Repara- 

 tion - 199 



VI. Nutrition. Functional Assimilation. Functional 



Distribution. Assimilating Synthesis . . 209 



BOOK IV. 



The Life of Matter. 



I. Universal Life (Opinions of the Philosophers 

 AND Poets). Continuity between Brute Bodies 

 and Living Bodies. Origin of the Principle of 



Continuity 239 



IL Origin of Living Matter in Brute Matter . . 249 

 in. Organization and Chemical Composition of Living 



Matter and Brute Matter ..... 255 



IV. Evolution and Mutability of Living Matter and 



Brute Matter ........ 259 



V, The Composition of the Specific Form. Living 



Bodies and Crystals. Cicatrization . . .281 

 VI. Nutrition in the Living Being and in the 



Crystai 290 



VII. Generation in Brute Bodies and Living Bodies. 



Spontaneous Generation 294 



BOOK V. 



Senescence and Death. 

 I. The Different Points of View from which Death 



MAY BE regarded 307 



II. Constitution of the Organisms. Partial Death. 



Collective Deaths 312 



III. Physical and Chemical Characteristics of 



Cellular Deaths. Necrobiosis .... 321 



IV. Apparent Perennity of Complex Individuals . 330 

 V. Immortality of the Protozoa and of Slightly 



Differentiated Cells 334 



V^I. Lethality of the Metazoa and of Differentiated 



Cells ......... 340 



VII. Man. The Instinct of Life and the Instinct of 



Death 345 



Index 361 



